DIY Projects

DIY designer mirror remake

DIY designer mirror remake

Sean Ragan tells the maker’s tale of how his friction-only mirror hanger came into being: Sometimes I like to peruse the snooty design catalogs. On the one hand, while I’m sickened by the notion of anyone paying thousands of dollars for a chair, those “name” designers often have clever ideas that are easily liberated to […]

Flowers by Jan van Nuenen

Flowers by Jan van Nuenen was created using a Monome controlling Ableton Live via a max/msp patch called boiingg. I really like the combining of music and video into one piece of performance art. Live generates a string of midinotes with velocity 0 to 20 and back to 0. The velocity channel is used to […]

Flaming legs

Evidently the people of New Mexico have seen it all. Even robolegs gone wild! Carlos is a robotic everyman. He’s not one of those fancy deep sea dwelling, swimming pool competing, publicity hogging, multiple kill, or planet exploring robots, just a regular robot doing his thing like us humans. Carlos was a college kinetic sculpture […]